Busan Transportation Corporation Strengthens 'Rail Safety Competency' Through Internal Competition

In-house Technology Competition and Research Presentation Held... Enhancing Incident Response Capabilities and Promoting Research Culture

Participation from 9 Fields Including Control, Crew, Vehicles, Electrical, Mechanical Environment, Signaling, Communication, Electronics, and Facilities

Busan Transportation Corporation announced on the 4th that it evaluated the technical capabilities of its employees from October 29 to 31 to ensure the safe operation of the Busan Urban Railway.

The corporation holds an annual technical competition and research presentation to enhance employees' ability to respond quickly and their technical skills in preparation for accidents and malfunctions that may occur during urban railway operations. Nine job categories related to train operation, including control, crew, vehicles, electrical, mechanical environment, signaling, communication, electronics, and facilities, all participate.

Busan Transportation Corporation is strengthening railway safety capabilities through internal competitions.

This year's technical competition involved 20 teams from five fields: crew, electrical, signaling, communication, and facilities, competing in railway safety accident response capabilities. Employees contributed to building a safe Busan Urban Railway system by demonstrating emergency recovery training assuming rail damage situations and training for establishing a real-time video transmission system at disaster accident sites due to communication equipment failures.

At the research presentation, 31 teams from nine fields?control, crew, vehicles, electrical, mechanical environment, signaling, communication, electronics, and facilities?participated, introducing research and development cases for the advancement of the corporation and the railway industry, such as a study on inspecting overhead line supports using drones.

In particular, a project that improved the maintenance management method of the main air compressor of Line 2 electric trains, reducing parts purchase costs, received great attention. It is expected that the 31 projects presented at this research presentation will save a budget of 450 million KRW, and the highly praised research and development cases will be actively utilized in the field.

Lee Byung-jin, president of Busan Transportation Corporation, said, “Through this event, we expect employees to share technologies applicable to actual sites and enhance their work capabilities,” adding, “We will take the lead in safe urban railway operation and domestic railway development through continuous research and efforts to strengthen safety accident response capabilities.”

Busan Transportation Corporation is conducting a technology competition.

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